README.md

Apache Thrift - CMake Build

Goal

Extend Apache Thrift's make cross approach to the build system.

Due to growing the field of operating system support, a proper executable and library detection mechanism running on as much platforms as possible becomes required. The other aspect to simplify the release process and package generation process.

As nice side benefit of CMake is the generation of development environment specific soultion files. => No solution files within source tree.

Prerequisites

These are language-specific, however for C++ you must provide:

• Boost
• OpenSSL

You may optionally provide:

• libevent
• zlib

Usage

To use CMake you first create an out-of-tree build directory, then use CMake to generate a build framework, then build:

mkdir /tmp/build
cd /tmp/build
cmake /location/to/thrift

if you use a specific toolchain pass it to cmake, the same for options:

cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=../build/cmake/mingw32-toolchain.cmake ..
cmake -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang-3.5 -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++-3.5 ..
cmake -DTHRIFT_COMPILER_HS=OFF ..
cmake -DWITH_ZLIB=ON ..

and open the development environment you like with the solution or do this:

make
make check
make cross
make dist

or on Windows, the following will produce a solution file you can use inside Visual Studio:

cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" \
  -DBOOST_ROOT=C:/3rdparty/boost_1_69_0 \
  -DBOOST_LIBRARYDIR=C:/3rdparty/boost_1_69_0/lib64-msvc-14.1^
  -DZLIB_ROOT=C:/3rdparty/zlib-1.2.11

TODO

• git hash or tag based versioning depending on source state
• build tutorial
• build test
• enable/disable
• make cross
• make dist (create an alias to make package_source)
• make doc
• cpack (C++ and make dist only ?)
  • thrift-compiler
  • libthrift
  • tutorial
  • test
• merge into /README.md